Worst/Best Radio Ads

delaad

The idiot Maalox ad.

AlbionCat

"A good dose of Snake Oil" - he sounds so pathetically woeful and hopeful all in one sentence. It makes me smile every time (and I still have no idea what they are advertising)

MJ23

"Nought nought nought nought"






Fcuk off.

soc160

The ad for Crumlin Childrens Hospital. It's effective yes, but no-one wants to hear a baby crying on the radio, again and again and again being drummed into your ear... drives me insane when it comes on.

Typer Monkey

delaad wrote: »

The idiot Maalox ad.

Is that the one with the bloke with the indigestion 'Just as I'm trying to enjoy our daughters birthday party' and says at the end 'mmm that cake looks great'?

It's just so cringeworthy, even the actor seems to be rushing through the 'script' in embarrassment

mjv2ydratu679c

soc160 wrote: »

The ad for Crumlin Childrens Hospital. It's effective yes, but no-one wants to hear a baby crying on the radio, again and again and again being drummed into your ear... drives me insane when it comes on.

They have to generate their CEO's under the table payments somehow,

paddylonglegs

Typer Monkey wrote: »

Is that the one with the bloke with the indigestion 'Just as I'm trying to enjoy our daughters birthday party' and says at the end 'mmm that cake looks great'?

It's just so cringeworthy, even the actor seems to be rushing through the 'script' in embarrassment

Awful awful ad

Ciaran_B

These new Sunday Business Post ads (preparing for the week) are death.

L1011

Ciaran_B wrote: »

These new Sunday Business Post ads (preparing for the week) are death.

Instant way to alienate pretty much the entire IT sector, where the people making decisions quite frequently don't *own* an iron let alone spend their Sundays using it.

Tiler Durden

Who's your man that used to do the Newstalk inspirational ads, reminiscing about his time playing basketball and whatnot? Anyway, he's currently annoying me with some Angel Halo buisness I-dunno-what. His voice really grinds my gears, I can't think of how he could sound any more insincere.

And your man that did the ad. a while back with the line "represents yooooo!" Another lad that'd be better suited to reading toddlers stories.

The pair of them are really getting to me these days. If theirs are "radio voices" then I'll be getting rid of my radio.

artful_codger

The Xmas Panto advert. They're using the same Mr. Brennan gobsh*te actor to voice all seven dwarves, and he's doing a ****e effort to disguise it.

neris

the ads for the philipines for charity is getting tedious now. voices that all sound the same shouting down the radio at you. so many of the ads with the same lines its hard to tell what charity their begging for

delaad

Typer Monkey wrote: »

Is that the one with the bloke with the indigestion 'Just as I'm trying to enjoy our daughters birthday party' and says at the end 'mmm that cake looks great'?

It's just so cringeworthy, even the actor seems to be rushing through the 'script' in embarrassment

That's the one!

fussyonion

There's one doing the rounds at the moment, for heartburn/indigestion, and it involves a D4-head complaining he has heartburn/indigestion and his wife says something like "Why not take (insert name)? It's medically proven to relieve your symptoms" (Blah blah, load of codswallop she'd never had said in a real conversation) and then he says "Great, now I can have some birthday cake, delicious!"

It's all so false and ugh.

delaad

fussyonion wrote: »

There's one doing the rounds at the moment, for heartburn/indigestion, and it involves a D4-head complaining he has heartburn/indigestion and his wife says something like "Why not take (insert name)? It's medically proven to relieve your symptoms" (Blah blah, load of codswallop she'd never had said in a real conversation) and then he says "Great, now I can have some birthday cake, delicious!"

It's all so false and ugh.

That's "The idiot M***** ad"

Birneybau

The new Hot Press magazine ad.

Christ, it's embarrassing.

You are no longer relevant, at all. Just give up.

serfboard

Birneybau wrote: »

The new Hot Press magazine ad.

Christ, it's embarrassing.

Haven't heard it yet - care to enlighten us?

Birneybau

serfboard wrote: »

Haven't heard it yet - care to enlighten us?

"Music"

"Environment"

"Film"

"Sex"...

"Blah"

"Blah"

Punctuated by some girl saying "Hot Press" at random intervals.

MJ23

"Borry, Borry, turn off your olorm"

Judgement Day

MJ23 wrote: »

"Borry, Borry, turn off your olorm"

Cringe inducing indeed.

Trebor176

"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"

My first time to hear it this year today. I see why it irritates so many :rolleyes:

mackerski

Trebor176 wrote: »

"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"

My first time to hear it this year today. I see why it irritates so many :rolleyes:

I don't even think it's a real goat.

mattser

Get over it lads....It's a goat cause.

Bellerstring

Micheal o Muiriheirteaigh stepped down from broadcasting in 2010 or something. Us non-GAA lovers breathed a sigh of relief.
But since then, he's on every Movember & Blind charity ad on the radio assaulting the eardrums.
"Kal-ose-ur-highs"[/QUOTE]

And new this morning..."The Eye-or-ish Hoss-piss Fow-un-day-shun".

Kal-ose-ur-highs"

Typer Monkey

Trebor176 wrote: »

"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"

My first time to hear it this year today. I see why it irritates so many :rolleyes:

Get ready to hear it approximately ten thousand times between now and Xmas day. How much must they spend on advertising?!

TheSetMiner

" Do you sometimes find yourself asking the same questions again and again?

Do you sometimes find yourself asking the same questions again and again?

Do you sometimes find yourself asking the same questions again and again?

Spot the early signs of alzeihmers bladahblah..."

force eleven

mattser wrote: »

Get over it lads....It's a goat cause.

You're kid-ding right?

mackerski

force eleven wrote: »

You're kid-ding right?

You're just milking it now

Green Giant

TheSetMiner wrote: »

" Do you sometimes find yourself asking the same questions again and again?

Do you sometimes find yourself asking the same questions again and again?

Do you sometimes find yourself asking the same questions again and again?

Spot the early signs of alzeihmers bladahblah..."

Whenever I hear this ad, all I can think of is Andy Parsons on Mock the Week saying "Hi, I'm Dave, and like the TV channel, I repeat the same $hit over and over again" and then repeating the line a minute later in the same round.

Then I realised what the ad was for and felt horrible that I cracked up laughing every time it came on

The_Captain

As long as that 20 minute long (Barrys tea maybe?) ad about Dad buying a train for his son on Christmas doesn't come back, I'm happy

Typer Monkey

TheSetMiner wrote: »

" Do you sometimes find yourself asking the same questions again and again?

Do you sometimes find yourself asking the same questions again and again?

Do you sometimes find yourself asking the same questions again and again?

Spot the early signs of alzeihmers bladahblah..."

I find myself asking again and again why a voice-over artist with a speech impediment keeps getting work. Seriously, how does having a lisp not exclude you from such work? Surely having a speech impediment on the radio is the equivalent of an ugly model or a professional athlete with no sporting prowess. Doesn't make sense and drives me mental!

neris

Trebor176 wrote: »

"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"

My first time to hear it this year today. I see why it irritates so many :rolleyes:

theyd probably raise more money by telling people if they get so much donated by a date next year they wont play the ad at all

Harry Angstrom

Typer Monkey wrote: »

I find myself asking again and again why a voice-over artist with a speech impediment keeps getting work. Seriously, how does having a lisp not exclude you from such work? Surely having a speech impediment on the radio is the equivalent of an ugly model or a professional athlete with no sporting prowess. Doesn't make sense and drives me mental!

I've just heard her voicing an ad for Toyota Yaris, or should I say Yarisss.

mackerski

Typer Monkey wrote: »

I find myself asking again and again why a voice-over artist with a speech impediment keeps getting work. Seriously, how does having a lisp not exclude you from such work? Surely having a speech impediment on the radio is the equivalent of an ugly model or a professional athlete with no sporting prowess. Doesn't make sense and drives me mental!

Or having a guy with no ability to pronounce German tackle the phrases "Wir leben Autos" or "Vorsprung durch Technik".

The_Captain

mackerski wrote: »

Or having a guy with no ability to pronounce German tackle the phrases "Wir leben Autos" or "Vorsprung durch Technik".

Irish are crap when it comes to cars anyway.

Awe-dee and Pyoo-joe are just plain wrong

Welsh Megaman

TANKS A TOUSAND!

denishurley

The_Captain wrote: »

As long as that 20 minute long (Barrys tea maybe?) ad about Dad buying a train for his son on Christmas doesn't come back, I'm happy

I don't think they've used it since Peter Caffrey, the actor doing the voiceover, died.

The_Captain

denishurley wrote: »

I don't think they've used it since Peter Caffrey, the actor doing the voiceover, died.

They have definitely used it since then

mackerski

The_Captain wrote: »

Irish are crap when it comes to cars anyway.

Awe-dee and Pyoo-joe are just plain wrong

Not to mention rennawlt and voakes-wagon.

Tiler Durden

Trebor176 wrote: »

"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"

My first time to hear it this year today. I see why it irritates so many :rolleyes:

Heard it for the first time today too. Christmas must be here.

'Tis nearly tradition at this stage.

L1011

denishurley wrote: »

I don't think they've used it since Peter Caffrey, the actor doing the voiceover, died.

They have, he died about 5 years ago and it was in use last year.

Typer Monkey

mackerski wrote: »

Or having a guy with no ability to pronounce German tackle the phrases "Wir leben Autos" or "Vorsprung durch Technik".

Or his other clanger 'Good-in-tag'!

Harry Angstrom

Tiler Durden wrote: »

Heard it for the first time today too. Christmas must be here.

'Tis nearly tradition at this stage.

One of the very few radio ads that I like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab0-T0KkJzY

Judgement Day

mackerski wrote: »

Or having a guy with no ability to pronounce German tackle the phrases "Wir leben Autos" or "Vorsprung durch Technik".

Any of those Ads with the German bs at the end are so dated, they were vaguely catchy at the end of the 1970s (?) when they first aired but please...:rolleyes:

fricatus

The_Captain wrote: »

Irish are crap when it comes to cars anyway.

Awe-dee and Pyoo-joe are just plain wrong

Although attempts by car advertisers to be authentic in the pronunciation of the name can occasionally fall very flat. Early British ads for Hyundai pronounced it something like "Hhhyyyun-day".

We say "Hi-un-die" of course, but the Americans are worse: "Hoonday"! :eek:

Typer Monkey wrote: »

Or his other clanger 'Good-in-tag'!

That deserves another eek: :eek:

Judgement Day wrote: »

Any of those Ads with the German bs at the end are so dated, they were vaguely catchy at the end of the 1970s (?) when they first aired but please...:rolleyes:

I can't agree. The German language may not be pretty, but it has never not been cool.

As long as they have a real German speaking the phrase, it's "alles Kuhl" with me.

Yeah, I know... :rolleyes:

Tiler Durden

"Day-cha" is how they are pronouncing the car that I would normally call "Day-see-ah".

fricatus

Tiler Durden wrote: »

"Day-cha" is how they are pronouncing the car that I would normally call "Day-see-ah".

Yeah, and I heard it being called "Dacha" on British TV.

mackerski

fricatus wrote: »

Yeah, and I heard it being called "Dacha" on British TV.

That's how I've always pronounced it. I can't be sure of the second syllable but the first is certainly "daa" and not "day".

PopePalpatine

If in doubt, consult Top Gear. :pac: They pronounce it as "dah-cia" too.

The_Captain

The_Captain wrote: »

As long as that 20 minute long (Barrys tea maybe?) ad about Dad buying a train for his son on Christmas doesn't come back, I'm happy

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

One of the very few radio ads that I like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab0-T0KkJzY

YOU BALLBAG!